{"id":1082,"date":"2007-05-20T23:29:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T04:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2018-03-31T22:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T06:05:28","slug":"well-woven-transit-in-a-multi-centered-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Well-woven transit in a multi-centered region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a very interesting post from a blog in Houston, a metro area that has even greater problems with auto-dependence and transit fragmentation than the Bay Area. The post describes a coordinated intermodal system used in a multi-centric region of Germany that has four different types of transit used for different needs, including inter-city travel, commuter travel, and city travel. The pieces are designed to knit together, minimizing transfers and supporting easy transfers from mode to mode.<br \/>\nThe kicker &#8212; the region in question <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greater_Houston\">covers the same amount of geographical area as Houston<\/a>, which covers over 10,000 square miles in 10 counties. The Bay Area is somewhat smaller, about 7,000 square miles in 9 counties <a href=\"http:\/\/transit.511.org\/providers\/basics.asp \"> according to 511.org<\/a>. Conclusion: it is possible to create a coordinated transit system in a spread-out region with multiple metros.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. The German system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmv.de\/coremedia\/generator\/RMV\/WirUeberUns__en\/RMVinZahlen__en\/EN__WIR__ZAHL__ART.html\">serves about 5 million residents<\/a>, with 640 million trips in 2005. The Bay Area has about 7 million residents, with about 500 million trips per year. The Bay Area&#8217;s usage of a less well-integrated integrated system is 55% of theirs, measured in trips per person per year year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a very interesting post from a blog in Houston, a metro area that has even greater problems with auto-dependence and transit fragmentation than the Bay Area. The post describes a coordinated intermodal system used in a multi-centric region of Germany that has four different types of transit used for different needs, including inter-city travel, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Well-woven transit in a multi-centered region&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}